FAOSTAT Trade Matrix Explorer

A simple shiny application for visualising FAOSTAT trade matrices. Work in progress.

Application is a standalone and is shipped with required data files.

Running the app locally

Setting up the environment

You need to have up-to-date version of R installed in any operating system. RStudio IDE makes things easier, but is not required.

Then you need few dependencies tha can be installed running the script below in R:

PACKAGES <- c("dplyr","tidyr","ggplot2","scales","grid","maptools",
          "sp","rgeos","plyr","geosphere","extrafont","stringr",
          "rgdal","grid","gridExtra","shiny","shinyBS")
#  Install packages
inst <- match(PACKAGES, .packages(all=TRUE))
need <- which(is.na(inst))
if (length(need) > 0) install.packages(PACKAGES[need])
# Load packages
lapply(PACKAGES, require, character.only=T)

Downloading the app

If you have git installed you can do

git clone git@github.com:UNFAOstatistics/trade_matrix.git

And then change (working)directory to trade_matrix folder and run runApp()

If you don't have git, you can just download the zipfile, unzip and change (working)directory where the files are and run runApp().

License: GPL (>= 2) + file LICENSE